This content is machine translated The epileptic seizure as stroke mimic The role of perfusion CT Introduction: The clinical distinction between a stroke and an epileptic seizure is not always easy in the emergency situation. However, for the indication of thrombolytic therapy, the distinction between these…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated The incomplete hippocampal inversion Characteristic changes in MR Incomplete hippocampal inversion (IHI), also known as hippocampal malrotation, is a fetal developmental disorder with incomplete infolding of the fetal dentate gyrus, ammonic horn, subiculum, and parahippocampal gyrus [1]. In…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Arterio-venous malformations Vascular malformation in the head – What now? The main manifestation of symptomatic arterio-venous malformation (AVM) is intracranial hemorrhage, typically subarachnoid or intracerebral as a result of rupture in localized destructive vessel wall remodeling. Other typical symptoms exist…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated The slightly different case Debunked: acquired angioedema in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. A 54-year-old housewife suffered an acute episode of angioedema of the tongue and posterior pharyngeal wall and required emergency treatment in the intensive care unit (Fig. 1). Since the swelling…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Crossed cerebro-cerebellar diaschisis. DWI imaging in the diagnosis of status epilepticus Magnetic resonance imaging is a sensitive method for visualizing reversible and irreversible changes in brain tissue after epileptic seizures. The following case report specifically discusses diffusion imaging, which can visualize…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Inflammatory brain diseases The role of imaging Inflammatory brain diseases are caused by bacteria, fungi, parasites, virus or prions and present with a wide variety of symptoms, many of which can also be caused by non-infectious brain…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Hyperkinesias in diabetes Hemichorea hemiballism in the setting of nonketotic hyperglycemia. Introduction: Hyperkinesia due to dysfunction of the basal ganglia can be caused by a number of predominantly vascular and (para)infectious as well as endocrine diseases. In the following, we report…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Patient with depression Ejaculatory dysfunction as an adverse effect of trazodone. Case report: a 22-year-old patient with known recurrent depressive disorder and regular use of cannabis presented for increasing depressive symptoms. He was psychosocially burdened by prolonged unemployment, debt, and relationship…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Clival foramen magnum meningioma Preoperative onyx embolization followed by endoscopically assisted microneurosurgery. Meningiomas of the skull base can lead to different symptoms depending on their location and size. The surgical procedure is very challenging due to the proximity to the caudal cranial…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Protein electrophoresis in gastroenterology A little used but very useful test Protein electrophoresis is an inexpensive and widely available laboratory test and examines specific proteins in the blood. In internal medicine, it is mainly used to diagnose suspected multiple myeloma. The…
